STAAR Colonization Review

Jamestown, the 1st permanent English settlement, was founded in this year by a joint stock company called the Virginia Company

• 1588
• 1607
• 1620
• 1630

The Mayflower Compact was signed in what year by Pilgrims of Plymouth which became the 1st written agreement to self govern in the English Colonies

• 1588
• 1607
• 1620
• 1630

Founded for religious freedom, the coldest region in the British colonies included Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island and had rocky soil, timber, and good fishing

• Western Region
• Southern Region
• Middle Region
• New England Region

The most culturally diverse region of the British colonies included Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. This region is known for its iron ore deposits and producing "bread basket" crops such as rye and wheat

• Western Region
• Southern Region
• Middle Region
• New England Region

Founded mainly for profit, the warmest region of the British colonies included Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. This region developed the plantation system growing cash crops such as tobacco which came to depend on slave labor

• Western Region
• Southern Region
• Middle Region
• New England Region

Southern colony founded by Lord Baltimore as a safe place for Catholics

• South Carolina
• Virginia
• Georgia
• Maryland

Southern colony founded by James Oglethorpe as a place for debtors and as a buffer to Spanish Florida

• Georgia
• North Carolina
• Virginia
• Maryland

The first representative assembly in the New World

• House of Representatives
• House of Lords
• House of Burgesses
• House of Commons

Created by Thomas Hooker, the first written constitution in America which limited the power of the colonial government

• Federal Constitution of 1824
• U.S. Constitution
• Articles of Confederation
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

A religious revival that created a new emphasis on education, promoted the belief that all men are equal in God's eyes, and made Americans more willing to question authority

• Transcendentalism
• Enlightenment
• First Great Awakening
• Second Great Awakening